ASM launched an exciting new design competition for Material Advantage students during the 2014 and 2015 MS&T Conference. This year, 2016, eleven student teams from eight universities entered the competition and built miniature geodesic domes.

Each team built their own geodesic dome and were judged across three different categories: an elevator speech, aesthetics, and mechanical strength. The last of which saw the domes being compression tested in front of an audience on the convention floor.